{"id":200147,"date":"2015-04-27T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=200147"},"modified":"2015-04-27T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:00:39","slug":"uog-student-gets-scholarship-for-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-student-gets-scholarship-for-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG student gets scholarship for Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam student Kristine Tuazon was recently selected by the Japanese government to receive a full scholarship to graduate school at Sophia University in Tokyo. Tuazon will graduate this May from UOG with a double major in Japanese Studies and Art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200150\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"200150\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kristine-Tuazon-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kristine-Tuazon-mug.jpg\" alt=\"Tuazon\" width=\"193\" height=\"238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuazon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tuazon was selected for this highly competitive scholarship after testing and interviewing with the Japanese government. She was supported throughout the application process by UOG professor of Japanese Dr. Toyoko Kang.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKristine is an outstandingly studious, hard working student&#8230;. Almost every semester\u00a0Tuazon takes six courses here at the University of Guam, but she is a type of student who does not miss any assignments,\u201d Kang wrote in a letter of recommendation. \u201cKristine is a sweet, highly self-motivated student that every instructor wants to have in his\/her class. I am very lucky to have her in my classes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuazon will begin her studies in Japan this fall as a research student and hopes to earn her Ph.D. while in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire thing seems like a miracle,\u201d Tuazon says. \u201cImagine all the things that had to line up for me to be able to accept this scholarship. It\u2019s really amazing when you think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuazon, encourages other UOG students to apply for the scholarship. Applications are due one year before the student plans to graduate. The program does not require any specific area of study, but Tuazon said it is helpful if you have a good background in the Japanese language.<strong> (UOG)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam student Kristine Tuazon was recently selected by the Japanese government to receive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":200150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,4133,4134,445],"class_list":["post-200147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-japanese-dr","tag-kristine-tuazon","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}